WebMail - Cleaning up your inbox

Anyone using e-mail these days knows that it's easy to get overloaded in terms of e-mail. All it takes is a few days without checking your account, or a friend that sends you a large file via e-mail. With all of the large file attachments and spam sent through e-mail these days, it can make getting to the mail you WANT to receive quite difficult.

WebMail can defeat this problem because it is capable of viewing and/or deleting messages in any order you want. Messages are not shown to you unless you specifically click on them. This allows you to delete problematic e-mails while leaving normal e-mails on the server for later viewing with either WebMail or your regular e-mail program.

How to spot problematic e-mails

• E-mails with Attachments (denoted by icon)

• E-mails that are very large in size. E-mails over 100-200K will usually contain an attachment. The example below shows a message that is 2789 kilobytes (This equates to about 2.7 Megabytes)

• Any message that is clearly spam.

• Any other message that appears to be jamming your e-mail program, preventing you from downloading all of your messages.

How to delete e-mails from WebMail

While looking at your index, you can delete multiple messages at a time by placing a check in the checkbox located at the far left side of the message subject. When you've selected all the messages you wish to delete, click the Delete icon (looks like a trashcan) at the upper left corner of the WebMail screen.

In the following example, 3 messages are checked for deletion:

After clicking the Delete button, WebMail will refresh your index. The messages you deleted should no longer be in the list. This means that when you next try to download mail with your regular e-mail program, the messages you deleted from WebMail should no longer be coming through!